Friday 26 November 2010 19.05 EST
First published on Friday 26 November 2010 19.05 EST

Childish Things, Edinburgh

Artists from the 80s and 90s present perspectives on childhoods fraught with ambivalences. In Jeff Koon's Bear and Policeman (1988), an oversized teddy bear menacingly cuddles an English bobby. At
The Fruitmarket Gallery until 23 January

Drawing in Progress, Middlesbrough

Some 40 drawings recently purchased for the gallery show the continuing relevance in our hi-tech world of the most primal of mark-making media. Barbara Kruger is represented by a photo-collage declaiming You Are The Perfect Crime (above). At
MIMA until 20 March

Unfold: A Cape Farewell Expedition, Newlyn

Since 2001, the Cape Farewell project has seen artists, architects, writers and musicians up sticks for Arctic climes to create work about global warming. However, Lucy and Jorge Orta's water-carrier vitrine (above) was inspired by their work in the Amazon. At
Newlyn Art Gallery until 22 January

Yvonne Rainer, London

Christine Borland, Glasgow

In this exhibition, Borland creatively 'discusses' the recent use in medical schools of 'simulated patients' – actors, hi-fidelity manikins and interactive digital software – a practice she compares with public dissections by early anatomists. Her works include (above) recast of From Nature (detail), credited to Sir John Goodsir (1814-1867). At
Sculpture Studios to 26 March Photograph: Christine Borland

Ceal Floyer, London

Berlin-based artist Floyer's beguiling, low-key work is full of smart visual puns and gentle absurdities. In her installation Things, a single word 'Things' is the only short, lonely sample from a pop song to emanate from empty plinths in a bare gallery. At
Lisson Gallery until 29 JanuaryPhotograph: Photo: Courtesy the artist and Lisson Gallery